I built it as my final high school project. Fillet brazed Columbus Thron, Ritchey dropouts, painted Ford amethyst, which I thought was really cool in 1996, but now just looks a little too pink! I made matching Columbus Thron TIG welded (I had the welding done for me) rigid forks using an RST or Marzocchi (can't remember which) steerer tube with Ritchey tips painted RS Judy yellow.

It was built up with a Shimano Deore LX groupset, Velocity Aeroheat AT rims in blue (absolute garbage), Kore stem, Kalloy post and bars, Cheng Shin tyres, SDG Bel Air seat and Tioga Surefoot IV pedals.

GT Karakoram late 80's early 90s? It was grey texture painted over a white base coat. Rigid fork, of course. Pretty sure it had center bolt mount brake calipers instead of cantis, but it's been gone a long time.

'99 or '00 Schwinn Mesa GSX. Got it new, wish I still had it. Next time my friend and I are both in San Francisco, I'm going to try to re-buy it from him. Then it can be my visiting home bike, maybe with a rigid fork if I want to really humiliate my Mom's boyfriend on trails. (He has a FSR XC with a nice fork.)

I bought a pair of circa 1985 Huffy (something that resembles) mountain bikes for my wife and I. We were just married and just bought our first home so didnt have much of that disposable income stuff laying around. We rode the crap out of those bikes and I think it was around 1996 when I sold them off and upgraded to "real bikes" for the wife and I. I paid $100 bucks a piece for those Huffys and sold them for $100 for the pair 11 years later...pretty good return for over a decade of usage lol.